"Rats!"
"Excuse me, I didn't catch your meaning."
"Never mind my meaning. We're talking about your sister. She's a most estimable woman, my dear Bish— Oh, pshaw! I can't always call you by your title."
"Call me Josephus," he said.
"No, I couldn't call you that, either. It's too dreadful. I'll call you Joe."
The Bishop beamed with joy.
"And I," he faltered, "may I call you Violet?"
"No," she said, "I don't think it's proper in a man of your position."
"But if you call me—Joe—"
"Well!" she cried, laughing, "we'll make a compromise. Suppose you call me 'the Leopard'?"